On 2008-07-15 10:10:30 +0100, "Arfa Daily" said:

Well, that's sort of the way I was thinking when I bought this one a couple
of years back, when the old 25 year jobby finally gasped its last. It was by
no means 'cheap', and certainly not the cheapest that B&D did at the time. I
guess that my mistake was to think that I was 'upgrading' by getting one
with extra features like the scroller. I suppose that the extra money over
the cheapo 'fixed' one that was in the range, did not cover the extra
features, so in order for B&D to match their decided price / performance
point, something had to give, and it was the basic mechanism ...


That's the irony. You can pay £50-60 and still get a crappy one.